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adduction

adduction

n.

1. movement of a limb toward the midline of the body. Any muscle that produces such movement is called an adductor. Compare abduction.

2. in conditioning, the production of new behavior by combining the discriminative stimuli of separate discriminated operants. —adduct vb.

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